I've been a fan of Mike Cross since the early '80's, when I discovered his music in North Carolina. I have his CD Carolina Sky in the disk player in my car, and listened to the second song on the disk, "Green of His Eyes," on the way home from work. It is a song about Cross's deceased father, and since my own father died at age 54 in 1993, it makes me think of my dad. These lyrics in the last verse always get to me:
And some folks are listening
Like they understand
As a teardrop hangs over a smile
Well all I can say is that if your daddy's alive
You ought to go talk for a while
When I got home I found Cross's website and learned he was born here in Maryville. They should book him to play the Foothills Fall Festival.
